ARCHIVED - New Director appointed for Corvera International Airport.

Iván Tejada, Director of Corvera International Airport.

Iván Tejada is to take up the reins at Corvera International Airport, replacing Mariano Menor, who resigned following differences with the management of Sacyr, the constructor who holds 60% of the shares in the concessionary Aeromur, who have built the new International airport.

The post of Director has been vacant for some weeks, but now that the agreement between the regional Consejero for public works and the secretary of State for transport has been formalised, this gives the green light for the transfer of civil operations to Corvera, leaving San Javier for the exclusive use of the Military.

Initial bureaucratic procedures also began this week to begin the safety checks which will enable the new airport to open next year, safety manual checks the first of many boxes which will need to be ticked in the long process of opening an airport.

Iván Tejada is an aeronautical engineer who became Director of the Valencian airport of Manises in August 2001.

He remained in this position until 2008 and in 2009 asked to leave the Aena network to take up a position as operations director at the new, privately funded Castellón airport.

However, Castellón has failed to open, having not obtained the necessary permits to begin flight operations.

It is to be hoped that Sr Tejada does not find himself in the same position at Corvera, the parallels between the point at which he joined Castellón and Corvera being surprisingly similair.

Corvera is virtully completed and is now in the final stages of construction, and the initial stages of bureaucratic processes underway to gain the necessary operating licences.